Fiction
In reply to the discussion: What are you reading this week of March 11, 2018? [View all]PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,858 posts)by Richard Lloyd Parry, which focuses mainly on one small city in northern Japan where 70 or so of the 100 and some children at the local elementary school died in the tsunami. It was the only school in Japan that last a significant number of children. Very interesting, especially as it gives thoughtful insight into Japanese culture and norms.
I also finished The Choice by Dr. Edith Eva Eger, a Hungarian Jew who survived Auschwitz, married shortly after the war, emigrated to the United States where she and her husband raised three children and eventually became a clinical psychologist. She's 90 now and still going strong.
At the moment I'm currently reading A Village With My Name by Scott Tong, about his family's history in China and connecting to the relatives that still live there. Also reading Something Missing by Matthew Dicks about a thief who only steals what he is certain won't be missed and is very OCD, which is why he's a successful thief. So far it's quite good.